Listed 3 sub titles with search on: Ancient literary sources for destination: "PYRRA Ancient city MYTILINI".
In the interval between Mitylene and Methymna, in the neighborhood of a village called Aegeirus in the Methymnaean territory, the island is narrowest, with a passage of only twenty stadia over to the Euripus of the Pyrrhaeans. is situated on the western side of Lesbos at a distance of one hundred stadia from Malia.(Strabo 13.2.2)
Pyrrha has been razed to the ground, but its suburb is inhabited and has a harbor, whence there is a passage of eighty stadia over hills to Mitylene. (Strabo 13.2.4)
Paches (Athenian commander) reduced Pyrrha and Eresus
Receive our daily Newsletter with all the latest updates on the Greek Travel industry.
Subscribe now!